Martin Dam
Martin Dam is a concrete arch gravity dam on the Tallapoosa River in Alabama in the United States, about 10 miles southwest of Dadeville. Impounding the 40,000-acre Lake Martin, the dam was built in the 1920s to provide flood control, hydroelectric power generation and water supply.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Martin Dam
- Type: Dam
- Description: dam in Tallapoosa County, Alabama, United States of America
- Category: hydroelectric power station
- Location: Tallapoosa, Alabama, South, United States, North America
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Ukrainian—“Martin Dam” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Martin Dam”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سد مارتن”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مارتن دام”
- Italian: “diga di Martin”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Martin-demningen”
- Norwegian: “Martin-demningen”
- Ukrainian: “ГЕС Мартін”
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